Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

Guenter Roeck
2016-06-18T04:16:20Z

Hi Greg,

On 06/17/2016 08:16 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into
> a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them.
>
> I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git
> tree here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
>
Great!

> I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real"
> -rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on
> them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end.
>
> Note these branches WILL get rebased. All the time. So don't count on
> them to contain anything that will stick around, UNTIL a real stable
> release happens.
>
> Guenter, I hope this helps with your testing, is there anything that I
> can do here to make it easier for you?
>
Yes, it does. I'll see if I can switch to fetching the branches from there
in the next couple of days. I'm all happy ...

Thanks!

Guenter